Women in History
Which came first?
Government
Famous figures
History of Spalding
400

This woman started the American Red Cross Association during the Civil War?

Who is Clara Barton

400

Which came first, Sumer or Ancient Egypt

What is Sumer?

400

These are the Three Branches of the United States Federal Government.

What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. 

400

This civil rights leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr. 

400

Spalding was founded in what year.

What is 1963

800

This movement that Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a key role in inspiring at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?

What is the Women’s Suffrage movement

800

Which came first, the Minoan civilization or the Mycenaean civilization?

What are the Minoans

800

This government system, people elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.

What is a Democratic Republic



800

This American general led Allied forces during World War II and later became president.



Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower

800

This was the original name of the high school when it was moved to its current campus

What is Martin Spalding High School 

1200

This ruling monarch of Britain delivered the iconic speech to her troops at Tilbury during the 1588 Spanish Armada Crisis?

Who is Queen Elizabeth I

1200

Which came first, the reign of Julius Caesar or the reign of Augustus Caesar

Who is Julius Caesar

1200

This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

What is the 13th Amendment. 

1200

This ancient Greek philosopher wrote The Republic and was a student of Socrates.



Who is Plato

1200

This group was the original founders (and leaders) of Spalding when it started out as an all-girls school

Who are The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

1600

This highly influential American novel Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in 1852

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin

1600

Which came first, the appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court or the election of Barack Obama as President?

Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?

1600

This system prevents any one branch of the U.S. Government from becoming too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the others.

What is checks and balances?



 

1600

This philosopher believed that government exists to protect natural rights and inspired democratic revolutions.



Who is John Locke

1600

This year Spalding become a co-educational high school

what is 1973

2000

This pioneering researcher on radioactivity was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. 

Who is Marie Curie

2000

Which came first, the isolation of radium or the discovery of penicillin?

What is the isolation of radium?

2000

This amendment granted the right to vote to U.S. citizens 18 years and older.

What is the 26th Amendment

2000

This woman helped nurse wounded soldiers during the Crimean War and reformed hospitals.

Who is Florence Nightingale

2000

This motto is what represents Spalding, it encourages to take ownership, act neighborly, and show enthusiasm.

What is "One in Christ"

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